Video and audio recordings of selected events at the Maison Française can be accessed below. We hope you will join us soon for one of our upcoming events.
On Tuesday, September 27, Stéphane Hessel, 93-year old Resistance hero and author of the worldwide phenomenon, Time for Outrage:Indignez-vous!, addressed a standing-room only audience of nearly 300 at Columbia University, in an event sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française.
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Mr. Hessel's talk at Columbia about his book was featured on C-SPAN Book TV on Sunday, October 9, at 12:15 a.m. and at 10 pm (ET). To watch his full interview on C-Span, please click here.
Paul LeClerc, a scholar of the French Enlightenment, retired in June 2011 from his position as president of the New York Public Library, where he had served admirably since 1993. To mark this occasion, on April 29, 2011, Paul LeClerc and Bruno Racine, president of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, engaged in a wide-ranging conversation about the future of libraries in the digital age.
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A videorecording of this event is available on the NYPL Live website.